Rod-packing.



No. 7l6,.836. Patented Dec. 23, I902.

43. J. GARLODK.

BOD PACKING.

(Applicafiion filed Apr. 25, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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OLIN J. GARLOCK, OF PALMYRA, NEW YORK, ASS-IGNOR. TO THE GAR- LOGK PACKING COMPANY, OF PALMYRA, NEW YORK.

ROD-PACKING.

SPEGIIEICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 716,836, dated December 23, 1902.

Application filed April 25, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LOLIN J. GARLOoK,of Palmyra, in the county of Wayne and State of New York, have invented a new and useful 5 Improvementin Rod-Packing,which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is an improved form or kind :0 of rod-packing, consisting of fibrous material panying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the body of packing, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a view of the same seen as indicated by arrow 2 in Fig. 1, parts broken away. Figs. 3

and 4. are transverse sections on, the dotted lines 3 3 and 4 4, respectively, in Fig. 1. Fig. 5, drawn to an enlarged scale, is a transverse section of the metal core, taken on the dotted Fig. 6 is a ring of the packthe red.

A in the drawings is an elongated prismatic strip or body of the packing, consisting of strands of fibrous packing material of common kindas flax, hemp, or other material-'- compactly braided around a metal core-piece B, the body being substantially rectangular or square in cross-section, as shown in Figs.

3 and 4. The core B is made of an inelastic pliable metal, as lead, tubular in form and transversely corrugated or indented at b b on opposite sides to better hold the strands of thebraid. The dents or corrugations on the 0 opposite sides of the tubular core are alter- Serial No. 104,669. (No model.)

sizes of the rods to be packed. These rings are subsequently immersed or soaked in hot oil or grease or waterproof compound in the usual manner of treating rod-packing, which oil or compound fills the tubular cores and when the packing is in use gradually flows outward through the perforations to be taken up or absorbed by the fibrous body to keep up its saturation as the oil disappears therefrom on account of the action of the rod.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

I. Rod-packing consisting of a ring having a tubular core of pliable metal, as lead, and a braid of fibrous packing material formed around the metal core, substantially square in cross-section, the core being transversely alternately corrugated and perforated, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. Bod-packing consisting of a ring formed with a tubular core of soft metal, and compact fibrous packing material surrounding the core, the latter being indented or corrugated, and perforated, substantially as shown and described.

3. Rod-packing consisting of a body having a tubular core, and a braid of fibrous packing material formed around the core, the core being alternately transversely corrugated and perforated, and of material difierent from that of which the braid is made, the body being bent to form a ring,substantially as shown and set forth.

4. Rod-packing consisting of an elongated prismatic body of compact fiberbent to form a ring, said body having a hollow metallic core indented at difierent sides the indentations at one side alternating with those at the other side, and holes in said core opening from without into the interior thereof, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 22d day of April, 1902, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OLIN .I. GARLOGK.

Witnesses:

EUGENE E. SMITH, HENRY W. GUTHRIE. 

